KSR - 2026-07-28- KSR - Hour 2

Episode Date: July 28, 2026

Topics this hour: jobs that Matt had in the past, Butler County and Caldwell County facts from Billy, and Kahlil Whitney visits.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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One person writes, Matt, did you know there's a movie coming out next year with Bugs Bunny where the coyote sues the Acme Company for blowing him up and John Sina is his lawyer? What? That sounds completely made up, so I bet it's probably true. I don't know if I'll catch that one. What a wild concept. That is a wild concept. John Sina, a good pick for it, though.

One person writes, Matt, I can't see you doing any job. much less being a prison guard, you would have been the worst prison guard ever. Well, first of all, I've had jobs. Yes. Can we say the jobs I've had? Yes. Worked at movie warehouse. Great, great, great employee.

I miss movie warehouse. Movie warehouse was great. You asked me any movie from 95, 96. I checked it in. I worked for the Middlesboro Daily News. Very important. As a reporter. I worked at AAA as a summer travel agent.

you weren't out there changing the tires Were you People younger people Mario like doesn't even know what a travel agent is But it used to like Young people don't think about before the internet How did you book where you were going to go You know

Like if you were going to go to Jackson, Mississippi Why? But if you were You wouldn't know what the hotels were No Why you need a travel agent to look it up for you And I would sit there and take calls And they'd be like

I want to go to Peoria, Illinois. Give me a hotel. You get a hotel. And is there an Applebee? And I would do that. There was like this little machine. Then Hart's Dry Cleaners, which is still out there on South Broadway.

Still there. North Broadway. Just picked up some clothes from there. Could have been you that starts it. Casual living. At the patio furniture place. Is that place still open? It's off Richmond Road, right?

No, it was, well, I don't know where it is now. It used to be off New Circle. Liberty Road. Okay. It was Liberty Road was where their warehouse was. I would deliver grills to women, like middle-aged women trying to seduce you as the grill boy got off the truck. That happened multiple times. How do I apply?

I don't know. Is casual living still open? I had a lot of good memory. at casual living. That was a lot of fun. Did you do it one summer? Yeah, every day I would just get in there at like 8 a.m. they'd give me my delivery order and I was on the open road all day.

Nobody bugging you? And because I knew Eastern Kentucky, they usually send me out to London or Corbyn or like I'd deliver all the stuff out there. I loved it. That was a great job. And then I worked. Yeah, that was it. Then I became a lawyer,

which is not really a job. Wasn't there some connection with Trinity Church with casual living you, they hired you. What? Never mine. All right. I don't know what that is. Billy is here.

Dry cleaning is surprising. I never heard that story. Yeah. Did dry cleaning? That's a hot job because like, not like it was exciting. It was like physically hot. Yeah. Because I mean in the summer,

now's like I've said this before. That was in the era when everybody would get their jeans starched. Oh yeah. All these people would come in and they'd be like extra starched. And you'd look at them and go, okay, and they go, extra start. And you give them jeans that were standing up by themselves. And they go, that's not enough starch.

They would just yell at you all the time. I spent the whole summer getting yelled at for not having enough starch in the jeans. All right. We're doing the counties. Yes. You got to remind me where we left off. We have Butler and Caldwell County. All right.

So Butler County, is that Morgan Town? Morgan Field. That is Morgan Town, correct. Morgan Town, one of our first affiliates. I think Morgan Field was our first one. But Morgan Town came... Right after. Well, part of the reason Morgan Town came right after is I couldn't get them...

I kept forgetting which was which. And I would say the other one so much that they finally just took the show to shut me up. We used to go there every summer doing a show. Morgan Town, we go to the guy who would paint cars. Yes. You remember that? He made us a big KSR thing. He made us...

I still have that. That little KSR metal. Yes. I wonder if he's still going. I don't know. All right. So Morgan Town and Butler County. Go ahead. Yes. Part of West Central Kentucky formed in 1810 from portions of Logan and Ohio counties, named after Major General Richard Butler, who is also the namesake of Butler County, Ohio, and Butler County, Pennsylvania.

No way. Yeah, he served in the Revolutionary War. How did he get three states to do accounting for him? Not sure. Well, Butler County, Pennsylvania is where Trump got shot. It is? That's probably that sounds familiar. Really? Yeah, he was a major general.

So the same Butler. that's in but that's where the Butler County where Trump got shot. Correct. What a small world. The population of about 13,000 people, the county seat is Morgantown. Butler County's history and early growth

can be traced back to the boating traffic that used to flow on the Green River. In 1833, the Commonwealth of Kentucky introduced a navigation system for the Green and Barren Rivers, including locks and dams, that allowed more commercial traffic to reach the county. Did they still do that? those?

So remind me, I know what a damn is. A lock is what? It's like when you raise and lower the water level. So that is what it is, right? They raise the water and lower, have you ever watched that happen? I've seen a Panama Canal thing where they do it. I bet that would be fascinating to watch it in real time. They have one of the Kentucky River, Kentucky Lake, I think, down there.

So they do it for like boats? They raise and how long does it take? I'm not sure on the. length, but over the next 20 years, Butler County's population doubled because of that, and two more towns were incorporated on, like, the locks, Rochester, and Woodbury. I've never heard of those. Growth slowed during the Civil War where Butler County witnessed a few minor incidents, but after the war in 1907, former soldiers from both sides came together to create the Confederate

Union Veterans Monument in front of the Butler County Courthouse in Morgantown. It's one of the only two monuments in Kentucky that revered both sides of the war instead of just one. Oh, really, wait a minute. So they both are in the same. The monument honors both of them. That's interesting. Because that was the part of the state that was like, that was where they were battling, right? Like that was, am I correct about that? Like that part of Kentucky, there were active fights.

Correct. Less in Butler County than maybe of the surrounding counties. How do you know that? Because that was in the research that they had a few minor incidents. Okay. It wasn't as much as some other places. The Finney Hotel in Woodbury dates back to 1867. The hotel played an important role in the economic development of Woodbury as a rivertown catering to riverboat travelers on the Green River. Is it still there?

It is, but it's abandoned now. By 1950, the hotel no longer served travelers and had become a private residence. It is historic but now abandoned that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Oh, it's like no one's there? Correct, yeah. People think it's haunted as well. would bet if you had a hotel that's 200 years old that just sits abandoned can you imagine what that's like inside creepy is what it's like inside haunted there haunted by the ghost of a little girl

that local lore suggested was murdered there well somebody was murdered yes um since 1980 morgan town has put on the green river catfish festival during the week of july 4 we've been to that remember we had miss catfish on the show we did have miss catfish on the show that's right we did have i still remember that Mitz catfish because I asked her, I said, what are the, what are, what is it you have to do to be Miss Catfish? And she said, smile and wave. I was like, well, okay. I forgot about Miss Cat. That was in the early KSR remote. Maybe one of the very first ones Miss Catfish came, because they have that really good restaurant thing. You remember we would need to go there every year. Don't take credit cards. Don't take credit cards. That food is so good.

You can still, it's still open, right? It's still open, right? right off the western Kentucky Parkway, isn't it? I think, and we did a show there, too, I think, at that restaurant. Yes. Square dancing, tractor shows, live music, beaty pageants, and an annual fishing tournament in which anglers fish for tagged catfish for cash prizes. Hmm, Miss catfish. Long time.

And then some people from Butler County, Medal of Honor recipient Don J. Jenkins for his actions in the Vietnam War. It is from Quality, Kentucky, which is in Butler County, an unincorporated town. Pendleton. Did they say what that guy did to make? him get the middle of honor? He was wounded and then went back into action. I'm not sure on the specifics.

He went back in where he was wounded. Pendleton Van Diver is a legendary Kentucky fiddler and uncle of Bill Monroe. His music helped influence the sound that Monroe later developed into bluegrass. What was his name? Pendleton Van Diver. Yes. It's a great name. You got it.

You don't hear that name very often. And Claude Charles Blotch was born in Woodbury. He was the admiral who was in charge at Pearl Harbor. Harbor during the attack in 1941. Well, he was in charge, so that didn't go very well. No, no, it was a surprise. The guy was in charge. An admiral who was in charge at Pearl Harbor during the attack.

Was from Butler County. It was from Woodbury. Wow. Well, there you go. A lot of history there. What is the name of that restaurant? Is it country kitchen? Country kitchen. That's exactly with Kay's. That's right. Country Kitchen with, I think it's still open.

Great homemade pies. If you're driving on the Western Kentucky Parkway, there's nothing. Nothing. Worst road, no offense in America for stuff. But then you get to Morgantown, it's the one exit. And if you get off and you take a right and you go like a mile, that country kitchen is. There it is. Is awesome.

I highly recommend that, Drew. It's a great pit stop on the Western Kentucky Parkway. It's still open and their Facebook profile picture is just a picture of pie. That's all you need. I'm telling you. That's what I remember about that restaurant. You know what? I don't know when we're heading west again, but I will stop there. Let's go. That place is really, really good. All right. So there's Butler County. What's next?

All right. To Caldwell County, we go. In Western Kentucky, formed in 1809 from parts of Livingston County, named after John Caldwell, a revolutionary war veteran who was elected the second lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 1804. And that's on the Mississippi River, right? I believe so, yes. He died while presiding over the state Senate in his first year. from inflammation of the brain, unfortunately. The county seat is Princeton in 1838 downtown.

That's not on the Mississippi. No, it's not. This neighbor's Madisonville. This is the county over for me. This is the place I wrote about in the book that had the mayor that was like 23 years old. You remember that? He's the youngest mayor in America was in Princeton. That is a beautiful little downtown there.

Yes, it is. But they elected him like right out of college to be the mayor. Don't know what happened to that guy. That was like six years ago. I've forgotten that view of you. But that was called Well, that's better than electing a dog like many Kentucky counties have. This guy, Princeton's a decent little sized town and he was the mayor. A lot going on in Princeton.

In 1838 in downtown Princeton at Big Springs Park was where Cherokee Indians camped for several weeks on their forced migration west on the trail of tears. We went there. Chris Tom and I went to that place. Yes, the Trail of Tears Park. A historic site there. In the late 1790s, James Ford was a respected businessman who grew up near Princeton. While known as a pillar of the community, secretly, Ford led a river piracy gang called Ford's fairy gang. I've heard of this.

Yes, they were river pirates. Yeah. Ford and his men robbed boats on the Ohio River, and he became infamous in the area. James was eventually killed by his own gang members. Well, you can't trust anybody. So there were pirates on the Ohio River. I didn't know about this. That would be,

I grew up right next to Prince and playing it, don't you think? It'd be a great movie. But he also lived a double life, so many people thought he was this great guy. So he was just like a local businessman. He was a pirate on the weekends. Then at night would put on an eye patch and be a pirate. I don't know about the eye patch, but at night they would go out and rob these boats.

Huh. Okay. Also, in Caldwell County, it is a, core part of the historic black patch region, famous for its dark-fired and dark-air-cured tobacco. The area was the center of the violent black-patch tobacco wars from 1906 to 1908 when local farmers rebelled against a major tobacco monopoly. Have you ever read about this? No.

It's one of like the great American worker uprisings. The tobacco farmers in Kentucky and I believe maybe Tennessee. Tennessee. Tennessee, they essentially just would just revolted and like kill the owners. The black patch wars, they went on for, what did you say, two years, three years. Two years. Yeah. That's a fascinating part of history.

There was one, something similar in West Virginia, which in coal mine, in the coal mining area, and then tobacco in Kentucky. Strictly just. They really like, and they couldn't quell it. They would just keep coming. This all took place in Colwell County? No, it was a lot. It's a big area.

Okay. It's in the center of a big area. Gotcha. The masked vigilantes group known as the night riders fought against the major corporations and farmers who helped them by destroying crops, burning warehouses, and intimidation. Fighting lasted for two years before the Kentucky National Guard had to step in. You hang tight. Okay.

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we've been to that's more country cooking than that place. That one or that one we go down there in Campbellsville that doesn't take credit cards either. I think it's closed now, though. Oh, it is. Grandmas or whatever. Whatever it was. I think that one's close. I think this may be the last one.

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And, boy, he was really glad about this. Of all the country songs that I've done, it was really nice to have a bluegrass number one record. So, believe me, I was mighty tickled about this. and Bill wrote this about his fiddle playing uncle, Uncle Penn. Get it, boys. There we go. Pendleton Van Diver from Butler-Patton County is the Uncle Penn from this famous Bill Monroe song. Very cool.

Do you know this song? This is one of the most famous bluegrass songs of all time. I don't know this one. And it's named after Uncle Penn. Yeah, it started Bill Monroe and then Ricky Skaggs had a big hit with it. So there you go. Butler, I didn't know that. That's very cool.

CJ wrote me and told me I did not. A bunch of you did. By the way, the guy that was the youngest mayor is now the county judge executive of Caldwell. Still a rising political star. He's probably still in his 20s. Yes. True. Rising star in Caldwell County.

All right, go ahead. What's your next? Yeah, continuing Caldwell County. Since 1925, the county has been home to the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture. With extensive experiment farms, the College of Agriculture in Princeton, is that, leader in horticultural and biological science in the 21st century. You're saying the University of Kentucky's Agriculture School is in Caldwell? That's not true.

It's been the home of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture since 1925. I thought it was out there on Newtown Pike. These are the facts. So, you know, I don't debate the facts are. They're fields are going. Okay, I could see that. The experiment farms. Yes.

Okay. Okay. All right. I can believe that. Yeah. Still largely agricultural. But Caldwell County is home to the. the Bremener factory, the largest private cookie and cracker, cracker factory in North America.

Really? I didn't know that. Wait a minute. I don't think I knew that. The largest cookie factory in America is it? The largest private cookie and cracker factory in North America. Private. What's a, I guess, so it's not publicly traded.

So, brimmer. What kind of cookies are brimmer? I'm trying to think. I don't know if I've ever heard that before, to be honest. I've never heard of brimmer either. I mean, are they good? I would like to support Kentucky cookies. What kind of cookies are brimmer? They're private, Matt, so we may not know a lot about it. Drew, you look up the brimmer cookies. All right. Go ahead. Billy.

About three miles from Princeton, a spot on Crider-Delaney Road off U.S. 62 West, you can find Gravity Hill. Drivers stop under a concrete overpass, shift their car into neutral, and if you take your foot off the break, your car will drift uphill. I've done this many times. You've been there. What? I was driving, yeah. No, wait a minute. Wait a minute.

What now? Been to Gravity Hill many, many, many, many times. So explain to me what happens? As he said, you just put it in neutral and you're sitting there and suddenly your car just starts going up the hill. I don't believe that. It does. Many have tied it to ghost stories and urban legends.

That's not true. But scientists have confirmed it's an illusion, an obstructed or false horizon combined with the angles of the surrounding embankments and the overpass structure, trick the human eye regarding which way is up or down. I have a story from here. Wait a minute. Really? Yeah, it's Gravity Hill. So you get tricked to think you're going up, but you're not.

Okay, now I want to see this, don't you? Oh, you've done it. Many times. I took my friend, we had a handicapped van. It was his family. He's called the H5. We took it there one time, and I was driving and got a flat tire. This woman came out of nowhere in the darkness and helped us change the tire.

And then we look up and she was gone. That absolutely happened. Shout out to the H5. We had all kinds of people in there and I was the drive. Car started moving up hill. Yeah. She just walked out of nowhere. So you're saying she just came from the dark.

Yes. Change your tire. Helped us. And then your car went uphill. And your car went uphill. Not all in one fell swoop there. The car, I believe, had already gone up the hill and we were on our way home. We went to Dairy Queen that night.

Good times. Okay. I'm going to skip the second part of that story because that did not happen. I would like to feel what you're saying. though. So like you have felt it going uphill? For being honest, it's a little disappointing. It does, it does seem, you do feel

like you're going uphill, but you're probably picturing like a mountain. It's not that steep. It's steep, but it's not. But you do feel like you're going up hill. I could understand if it's an illusion. I can't picture that at all. It does move uphill. That's fact. Have you done this? No, I've never heard of it before. And then the woman comes out of the woods out of nowhere. Wow. Now I want to do that.

that. We should get the youngest county judge executive to go and take us to go uphill. Go Gravity Hill. These are things you do when you grow up in Madisonville, Kentucky. I think it's fascinating. I do think your story about the woman coming out of the dark is... Crazy thing ever. It's false.

She's wearing a gown. She's not wearing a gown. She's not wearing a gown. There was no gown. And on to people of Caldwell County. I only have two, but I got two good ones. Mabel Stark is referred to as one of the world's first female tiger trainers. She eventually joined the Ringling brothers and has gotten worldwide

recognition. I wonder how she got into that? I'm not sure I don't have that. How do you learn your tiger trainer? We can't jump out in. We can ask Joe Exotic. They're the tigers. Yeah. And Martha Nelson Thomas was born in Princeton. She

created doll babies who were immediately ripped off in the inspiration for cabbage patch kids. Oh, I bet she's mad. Because there was a time where cabbage patch kids were. In the 80s, they were Oh my goodness. That was the big, that was like beanie babies later. Oh, yeah. That her doll babies were the inspiration.

And she did, she should have sued if she had a lawyer. Well, that's unfortunate. And then, of course, Cabbage, oh, you got more? Tony Franklin, football coach. Yes. Tony Franklin is from Princeton, okay. And your friend Scott Jennings. He went to Dawson Springs High School, but he was born in Princeton.

Scott Jennings is from Caldwell County. Well, no, I don't do this. I mean, Scott Jennings is, we're friendly. So grew up in Dawson, but was born. So he was born and I didn't know that. There was also a star quarterback just recently went to Purdue. Kentucky recruited him. Yes.

What was that guy? Went to Lone Oak? Was that where Lone Oak is? No, Caldwell County High School. The Tigers. Elijah Sinclair. Okay. I don't remember that name.

He went to Purdue? Yep. Did you say Caldwell County was the Tigers? Yes. Well, there you go. Well, Billy, nice job. What are our next two? Calloway and Campbell.

Calloway is what, Murray? Yep. And then Campbell, what's the Campbell County Camels. Yes. That's up in Northern Kentucky. Yeah, what city is it, though? I have no idea. I can't keep him straight up there.

Oh, that's Cory James country. That's Alexandria. Alexandria. Okay. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Well, thank you very much. Khalil Whitney is waiting outside.

I bet he was writing these facts down. He's probably very excited about them. Let's come and talk about Drew about the woman that peered out of the nowhere to tell you. It's crazy thing I've ever seen. I still think about it. I've never once brought that story up. You're making that up.

And she was levitating. And we'll be right back. This is KSR. Welcome back, Tucky Sports Radio. A couple things real quick. Casual living has closed. They have closed. That's unfortunate.

But, you know, it was a good time. Good memory. The guy would deliver furniture with, he was this old guy. He had a Sunday and he would just go, casual living boys. Casual living. I don't know. What great motivation? That's right.

Here, joining us with me for the first time, Khalil Whitney. Nice to have you. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Hey, I'm really glad you're here, and it has been awesome watching you on the TBT. Let's start with this. You've had a lot of great basketball moments. I know some of them were bigger than this one, but when you dunk that ball at the end of the game, what did that feel like? It felt amazing.

I was just thankful that, you know, I made a play for my team, and we was able to move on in advance. But, like we were just talking about, it was very nerve-wracking in the I-lim ending. Do you like the Eam ending? I love it. I love it. This gives you the opportunity to go on a run if your team's down or anything can happen. So he's got to stay locked in, fully locked in. And it looked like you were going to murder that camera.

I mean, the look on your face was wild. Yeah, I had to let some anger out. Like I was telling God, I said, I missed the three possession before that, and I was pissed off about that. So I really just wanted to make a play for my team at the moment, and I came through. What is it like? Like, I know it's a summer game and I know it's real money if you win, but what's it like just being in the atmosphere? Like, you know, once the game starts, you guys are intense. Yeah.

I look at it as a war. Oh, really? Okay. Oh, big Game of Thrones guy. It's my favorite show. Who do you relate to the most on Game of Thrones? I'll say John Snow. Oh, you've got to be a Targaryen dragon.

That's true. You're the dragon. You're not going to be. I feel like John Snow is my favorite character. I mean, John Snow is my favorite character. Just just like the way he evolved and what he had to go through. Coming back from the dead, you know, that's just... Well, okay, so your story is a little bit like that.

I mean, when you... Let's go back. When you were here and it ended, as you, after you left Kentucky, how did you think you would look back at your time in Lexington? Not good. I felt like probably years from that experience that I probably would have the same attitude towards it. Which was what?

Which was that I didn't want to come back. Like a dark hole. That's the energy I had here, which wasn't good at the moment. And I felt like that it would have stayed like that. But through the grace of God, you know, and hard work and perseverance and just me pouring my heart out, you know what I'm saying?

And being genuine and the fans being genuine as well with me, everything worked out. When you got, how did you get invited back? Like, did 20, how did you end up on the team? I think it was last year. Yeah, TB reached out to me right after the viral TikTok post that went viral that I posted. For people who didn't see it, tell people what that TikTok post was. Literally was a TikTok of me.

It was a picture of me in a security uniform because I was working security, I think, like three and a half, three years ago. Like, it was a moment of my life. I was hurt. I broke my toe. I couldn't play basketball at the moment. And so I had to find, you know, I had to find something that I could do on the side, you know, and I was working security at a nightclub. It was posted a picture.

And it went viral. I just wanted to see what people thought of it. You know what I'm saying? I wanted to be genuine and be transparent with people. You were acknowledging that you were having a tough time. Yeah. Right? And I remember when that came, a lot of people, that was my reaction was, man, I want to see good things happen for that guy.

So Twani reaches out to you. What does he say? So Twani reached out to me a year. year before, but I was I was playing in Croatia. So he just reached out to me, and we got to make it happen this year. And I was all in. I was all in for sure. Did you have any hesitation about coming back to Lexington? No hesitation at all. Because I knew what it could do for me. And I knew what type of impact it would have on the people in Lexington. So I just felt like coming back last year, you know, it helped me

tremendously. So you come back and that experience last year, that had to be great. Right? I mean, we ended up getting upset and losing in that game. But just you kind of being welcomed back. What did that feel like? It was wonderful. I tell people with this all the time. Like, you know, being embraced and being supported by like a group of great fans here, it's amazing.

It's just like it shows in the court as well. Like I get the utmost energy from the fans when I'm on the court. That's why I'm able to make the spectacular plays I make because I just, I feel the energy. So I love playing here. Did it come? kind of full circle. I mean, you'd had this really

negative experience here to then get to have a positive experience. I mean, that had to be a pretty good feeling. It's like, it is kind of coming full circle

in your life. Yeah. Like I said, like since last year, you know, TBT opened a lot of doors for me. Well, give me an example.

So did you get opportunities from it? Oh yeah. I got my most, I got my biggest deal to go play basketball as a professional right after TBT.

It was like three months after. Was it in China? It was in China, yeah. So I got my deal in the NBL. End up getting hurt my third month out there. But I definitely was blessed enough and able enough to, you know, fortunate enough to go out there and get an opportunity in China. Like, I've never been.

What's it like in China? It's dope. Like, I feel like China's one of the most accommodating place for an athlete besides the NBA or the Euro League. No good money. Great basketball. I mean, they want you to go out there and score 30 every game. So.

Did you like the food? Uh, yeah, no. Certain foods. I kind of steered, uh, I stayed on the Korean barbecue side. They had like a Korean barbecue buffet that you could literally go to for like 10 bucks. And they had like all the, you were eating Korean barbecue buffet like every meal. Every meal.

Every day. I was trying to stay on the, I was trying to stay on the safe side. Okay. So, well, they got KFC there usually. They do. Like I was, I was eating KFC too. It's funny you say that. But I was getting tired of just eating.

Yeah, that's a lot of KFC. see if you eat it all the time. So you come back this year, it's, I feel like this group with Andrew, you, Archie, Willie, and then you got these guys that didn't play here, but they've been part of it.

I think it's been fun to watch. I mean, there was obviously the little controversy of his Archie going to play or not, but now that he's here, it seems like you guys have a great time together. Yeah. I mean, we were just waiting for Archie to get here. Like, he's a huge part of our team.

and, you know, like, we know what to expect from him. And, I mean, now that he's here, he's helping us tremendously. Did you give him a hard time about losing that one-on-one? No, no, nobody. We haven't spoken to that. We haven't spoken of that. But right now we're super. He got fouled the whole time.

Like, he should have won that. They didn't call any foul. It's a different world of basketball, two different worlds. But like, like I'm saying, we're super locked in. These guys are, even the older guys, like Willie, my God, Trill, he's super locked. So tell me about Willie, because we love Willie. Yeah. Willie's like, he's grandpa out there.

But he really, like playing on one leg. Yeah. And he's been awesome to watch. Yeah, bro. His energy's been amazing. You know, that's like one of my vets. I play with him in a G-League. So just hearing him motivated and want to go out there and literally, you know,

like die out there for us. So it's like, bro, like we're right behind him and we're super stoked. So you're playing Beheim's army. Yeah. I think somebody, maybe it was Willie said, they actually run stuff. Yeah. Right? Willie said he thought it was the team that would run stuff the most.

Do you agree with that? Yeah, for sure, for sure. Did that make it more difficult? It's funny because for teams like us, like garden sets and actions like that is typically more easier because we could switch everything, right? We can blow everything up. We got defenders who could, this. This is bare, I mean, like this smothera shooter if you wanted to.

So I feel like I don't want to say that. Like what's our weaknesses on the team? Yeah, don't say that. Don't say that. But yeah, I feel like it was like an even kill with that. What's it like beating Louisville? We hate Louisville. I mean, you know, may remember this was before you hear.

A couple years ago, Drew got punched at the TBT game. Wow. In the face. A Louisville fan punched him in the face. This is when they spit Nate Sistina that year right before you. He got just jacked. That's crazy. So he's bled for TBT.

I'm a victim. So it's got to be fun beating Louisville. No, it was definitely a definitely fun win for us. You know, it was some adversity through that series, but we came out on top. So like I said. Now, people tell me at the end of these games, you stay and like talk and take pictures

and give autographs to everybody. Why do you do? I mean, I know why you do that. But like, what's your thought process? Is that special for you? Oh, yeah. Since I was a young man, just wanting somebody around who, you know, had a talent or where I just looked up to. I just wanted them to show me some type of attention.

And just, you know, with the fans, like, them embracing me last year and just them knowing my story. And, like, majority of them are really in tune with what I go through. I have the utmost respect for those guys and I just want to show my love and what I have for them. And when you say what you go through, give an example what you're talking about. I'm just saying all the things I've dealt with

in my career as far as the UK and me not having an experience that I wanted to have here and just coming back and the fans embracing me and wanting me to have a good experience here. Do you consider this like home now? Yeah, it's definitely my second home now for sure.

I love that. still have my apartment. I will say your story, and to some extent Archie, too, but really probably yours the most, is the thing I've liked about the TBT the most. I mean, I love that that connection has been able to happen. If nothing else occurred from it, watching you and Archie, and even to some extent Andrew, because he took a lot of stuff here as well, watching you guys feel that love and give it back, I just think it's like, I actually think it's kind of a beautiful thing, to be

honest. You know what I mean? Yeah, especially, like I'm saying, especially after the games. Like, there's knowing the energy that fans give you, and you just want to give back and just come out there and, like, communicate with them and just feel what the love feels like. All right. Well, we're going to take a break. I want to ask you about the game coming up Wednesday night. But first, you know, if you're a KSR listener, you know Kentucky loves talking about the weather.

We had bad weather. That was crazy last night. That was the worst lightning I've ever seen in my life. For a long time. Did you see that? Oh, yes. I mean, that was like, it was crazy. Yes, all over the place.

And I was thinking to myself, well, if something happens with my roof, CRC roofing. There you go. What are you laughing at, Cleo? It's exactly what I was thinking. Before long, everybody's picking sides, but with your roof, you know exactly what to look after if there's a storm or weather condition. Remember, KSR listeners get a free roof inspection and can save up to $1,000 on a new roof. Kalee, if you need a roof. I might blow the roof off.

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Did you see that coming? Definitely. Some of the things he used to do in practice and his work effort is slim to none. I think he'll be a future Hall of Famer. I think he'll win multiple championships. I just think he has the effect. He's a franchise player. Did you, you saw that coming, though?

Yeah, I've seen that the second week on campus, I've seen that coming. Wow. Well, he and quickly both. I mean, they both would do that little running floater, you know? That's quite a shot. Did they teach each other that? I don't know if they taught each other that, but I think it was probably a competitive thing of, like, who was probably going to have the best one or finish the best.

Now, tell me about playing for Cal. What's that like? It was dope. Like, off the court, Kyle was an amazing guy. Like, me and Coach Kyle still communicate. to this day. You know, he checks up on me. Like, on the court, he wants the best from you, but at the end

of the day, you got to understand it's a business. So whatever decision he made back then when he made it, I can only respect it now. Do you, you do keep in contact with him, right? Yeah. Is there, when you see Kentucky guys, is there a Kentucky kind of

brotherhood thing of guys, even if you didn't play with them that you feel a connection to him? Oh, yeah, with some of the guys, for sure, for me, definitely the guys that's been in tune and some of the guys I played with, it's a little different. Definitely, like John Wall, you know, me and John Wall was close, like, going through my pre-draft in Miami. I was locked down with him, so. And then Anthony Davis being from Chicago, just having that pipeline and DeAndre Liggins being from Chicago and Tyler Ullis.

Yeah, you got a lot of guys. Yeah, definitely. What's John Hood like as a coach? Oh, great coach. Is he really? Yeah, great coach. even better person. I'm impressed by how locked in everybody is when he's coaching. He carries the energy that I, like, I've only had from two of my coaches. Really? Yeah, he gets the best out of you.

Good. Great X-Nose guy can draw up a hell of a play like you guys seen, what, the first game? That was against Louisville, yeah. And he drew that up and we made it, we played it to perfection. So John Hood is one of the biggest reasons we're being successful right now. So now you're going to play Kansas tomorrow night. What time's the game?

Seven. Seven o'clock. Tickets on sale. I think it's going to be a great crowd. This is for the Alumni Championship. If you win, you're only one game away from the $2 million. Kansas be fighting, though. Yeah, we fought a lot last night.

What's going on there? Are you going to have to be ready for them? I don't know, man. We're going to keep up our professional. professionalism. We're here for the grand prize. What do you know about that group? I mean, it's the two winningness programs of all time going against each other.

Yeah, I mean, it's not going to be easy. No game's been easy in this tournament. I mean, for the amount of money you're playing where it's going to be passion out there for sure, like a lot of passion and emotions. Am I right? It's like winner take all, isn't it? I mean, that's kind of in and of itself. cool that you get this like somebody's taking all of it and the other one's getting nothing.

Committed this whole month and don't know you get anything. Yeah, what I'm kind of like, I'm not surprised guys do it, but why do you think, why do guys sign up for this knowing like only one team is going to win the money? I think one, it's a, it's a comfortability thing knowing like, oh, if you get it, like you could chill for a second. And if you're actively hooping or you just don't want to take a job, that plays a factor in it. And also, like, with this situation, my situation, like, we're playing for Kentucky. Like, we're going to have a good chance of winning. So it's like, why not, you know, come out here and give it your all?

And that's the problem I have with some players who don't show up is, like, you know, we're the favorites. We have a good team. We have a great fan base. is like why not show up and get the job done. Yeah, if you were talking to players who maybe haven't played yet, because we're going to have a whole new generation of guys who will be eligible over the next few years, would you encourage them to do it?

Yeah, 100%. There's no one just giving back. It's for the fans. You also get to win some money. And when you come back, they show mad love. So it's like, that's a win-win situation. I mean, Mario there's basically on the team. It's like God. That's like God.

We all think of Mario. Every time he's out there dancing in the games like you are. Bro, he's super energetic just like we are, and that's why we feed off each other, bro. Like, it's what we do. You played against the group that's going to be the team next year, right? Did you all play? What are they like? We haven't gotten to see them.

They're good. They're good. We got to think back. A great group of guards. Lentf is definitely their calling card. Defense. Marino is definitely improved. Okay.

The kid. You got Zoom Diallo. Zoom Diallo, super hockey, super like speedy guard and get downhill, make plays. And the kid, Hawthorne, his length, Braden. Braden. You like him? Yeah, he put on some weight. I feel like he definitely can be the X factor for this team.

Oh, good. Now, we like that. That's good. That's good info. Is it true that Pope put the full court press on you all in like a 20 minutes scrimmage? He did. Wow.

We did. We like, chill out, man. We're just trying. We just got here. We only had like five or six plays. I'm talking about it. Just chill. All right.

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30% off. Go Shadyrays for your polar. sunglasses. I'm going to make them hook you up with some sunglasses. I can't get you a roof because I don't know what I would, but I think I can get you some sunglasses. Like the ones you wore to madness back in the day. Shout out. Sadie Reyes. Oh, the dance. Yeah. Yeah, it was fire. Hey, seriously, it's been great watching you do this. I'm pulling for you. You showed vulnerability years ago that a lot of guys wouldn't. You were rewarded for it, which I think is wonderful. And it's been great watching you. And I'm pulling for us to

win, but I'm pulling for us to win as much for you as anybody there. Appreciate that, bro. And I appreciate you guys having me, man. I mean, there's a lot. Can we get a Dracharis before we go? Dracarus. It's 7 o'clock tomorrow night at Memorial. I'm coming so you can come to Khalil Whitney.

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